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"Mango seeds, continuous harvest belt seeds". The Chinese Astronomical Almanac shows that at 18:52 Beijing time on June 5, the "Mangzhong" festival will usher in, which marks the beginning of midsummer of the year. At this time, the north wheat is yellow, and the south is green.
Luo Shuwei, a historian and researcher at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, introduced that June 5, 6 or 7 of the Gregorian calendar is the beginning of the "Mangzhong" solar term, which is the ninth of the twenty-four solar terms and the third solar term of summer. "Mango" refers to crops with mangoes, such as wheat, rice, etc. "Mango seed" is a solar term that reflects the phenology of agriculture, and there is a folk proverb that "wheat can be harvested at the beginning, and rice cannot be planted", which means that wheat with mango can be harvested and debuted, and rice with mango must seize the time to plant seedlings.
At this time, The north and south of China's great rivers have entered the season of "planting seedlings and cutting wheat at both ends", so "mango seed" is also called "busy seed". The Southern Song Dynasty poet Lu You said in "When the rain and mango seeds are planted, the four fields are planted with seedlings." In the poem "Every family has beautiful wheat and rice, and everywhere is long", the rural scene when the "mango seed" arrived vividly depicted.
The "Mango Seeds" also marked the arrival of Midsummer. At this time, the dry and high temperature in the north is conducive to the appearance of new wheat, which is the so-called "it is difficult to buy the May drought with money"; the temperature in the south rises, the air humidity increases, "the new seedlings first come out of the water, the small green blanket is together", and the weather begins to be sweltering. At the same time, severe weather such as tornadoes, heavy rain, and hail may also come unexpectedly.
The "Mangzhong" season coincides with the annual college entrance examination. "In this harvest season, I sincerely wish that every candidate who takes the college entrance examination can sow hope and harvest good." Luo Shuwei said.
During the "Mango" season, the weather begins to be hot, the human metabolism is vigorous, sweat is easy to leak out, and gas is exhausted. Luo Shuwei combined folk traditions with the advice of health experts and said that attention should be paid to replenishing water. In terms of living, it is advisable to go to bed late and get up early, take a nap at noon, in order to facilitate the operation of qi and blood and eliminate fatigue. At the same time, it is necessary to bathe frequently, change clothes frequently, do not be greedy, in order to soothe the yang qi, avoid the invasion of summer and humidity and gastrointestinal dysfunction; the diet should be light, you can eat more soft, easy to digest and dispel the heat, quench thirst, healthy spleen and appetizer, detoxify and dispel damp fruits, vegetables and beans, supplemented by heat relief, stomach protection, spleen protection, blood pressure and lipid-lowering foods, such as bananas, buckwheat, yams, lotus seeds, etc.; emotionally should be kept relaxed and happy, quitting irritability and anger, in order to help nourish the spirit in hot weather. (Reporter Zhou Runjian)
Source: Xinhua News Agency